Source: Internet
Kolkata 20 January : In a true tradition of back-mouthing and giving it back to the Opposition in their own terms, the BJP has now started making a series of comments that has triggered the memory of the CPI(M) and the TMC’s taking up similar strategies on earlier occasions.
On Sunday at Naihati, during a BJP rally Dilip Ghosh, state BJP president, said: “Those who vandalise national property will be shot if infiltrators come from Bangladesh. After we come to power we will not only shoot people, but also use cannon. Those who cannot digest my words should take homeopathic medicine .We came here not to do gentleman’s politics . People of other communities who infiltrated from other countries will be identified first and their names will be scratched from voter’s list following whichthey will be expelled from the country.”
Following in the foot-steps of Ghosh, BJP MP from Bishnupur of West Bengal Soumitra Khan said the intellectuals and celebrities who are opposing the CAA are nothing but per dogs of Mamata Banerjee.
On Monday BJP general secretary for West Bengal Sayantan Basu said that the intellectuals who are protesting against CAA are not intellectuals but they are doing it for their own interest .
Khan, on Sunday, said : “Even after knowing all the facts about the CAA and the NRC, many eminent personalities and intellectuals of Bengal are opposing it.Those who do this are Mamata Banerjee’s dogs. Actors, directors and musicians of the state participated in rallies against the CAA and NRC. They also appeared in a video together and said that if the Central government asks for proof on citizenship again, they will not show any documents. But they were silent on the gang rape in Kamduni and Park Street. These people did not say anything about the bomb blast that happened at Naihati.”
A few days ago, Ghosh made headlines and kicked up a storm by claiming at a meeting in Nadia that anti CAA protestors were shot like dogs in BJP ruled states. This created stir in the BJP party ranks.
After this comment, BJP leader Babul Supriyo, said that Ghosh’s statement was not party’s statement and party did not endorse the statement .
However, Ghosh stuck to his comment despite criticism and said that he is not bothered about the criticism and claimed that both the Congress and the Trinamool Congress have opened fire on protestors on several occasions.
Earlier Ghosh also questioned the contributions of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen to Bengal and India and even claimed that Indian cow’s milk contains gold.
Senior BJP leaders are of the opinion that Ghosh’s aggression and his way of putting things against chief minister Mamata Banerjee has worked well in Bengal and that’s the reason behind his second term as the state BJP president.
A senior BJP leader said “Ghosh is aggressively putting things before the Opposition and his way of criticising the Opposition works in Bengal. We feel that under his leadership the party will strengthen more in Bengal .”
On Monday chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that she will pass a resolution against CAA in the state Assembly soon.
Dilip Ghosh joined the BJP in 2014 and became Bengal chief president in December 2015. He made his election debut with the 2016 West Bengal Assembly polls, where he contested and won the Congress bastion Kharagpur Sadar. The polls, however, culminated in a sweep for Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, which won 212 of Bengal’s 294 seats, with the BJP getting three. Over the next three years, under Ghosh, the BJP won multiple by-elections and took its tally in the assembly to 14. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Ghosh was elected MP from the Kharagpur seat. His vacated seat was won by the Trinamool Congress in the ensuing bypolls, and the BJP’s tally in the House fell to 13.
Partha Chatterjee, general secretary of Trinamool Congress said: ” The BJP wants to stay in the limelight by bad-mouthing. As it has become clear that the people are against CAA, NPR and NRC , BJP leaders think that the only way to stay relevant for them in Bengal politics is by bad-mouthing. People are aware of what is happening in the state and they have heard what BJP leaders have said .”
It may be mentioned after Ghosh’s derogatory comment that people of the BJP ruled states were shot for protesting against the CAA, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said: “BJP leaders only speak of shooting people. How can a political leader make such comments?”
How the CPI(M) and the TMC used bad -mouthing to attack the Opposition party in the past
In 2012, CPI(M) leader Anisur Rahman made an indecent remark on chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
Addressing a rally of the peasant movement at Itahar in North Dinajpur, Rahman criticised state government’s decision to provide compensation to the rape victims and said: “We have heard that state government will pay compensation for the rape victim. What is your fee? What will be your fee if you are raped?”
Rahman later apologised after the TMC submitted a privilege notice to Speaker Biman Bandhyopadhyay regarding the comment.
In 2014, Trinamool Congress leader Tapas Pal during an election campaign made a controversial remark and said that if any worker of the CPI(M) party try to touch TMC workers’ families, then he will send his men to rape the women workers of the Opposition party. He later apologised for his comment.